Management Mode; Ways To Manage The Device - ZyXEL Communications NWA3560-N User Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.3 Management Mode

One device uses Cont rol And Provisioning of Wireless Access Point s ( CAPWAP , see RFC 5415) t o
allow one AP t o configure and m anage up t o 24 ot hers. This cent ralized m anagem ent can great ly
reduce t he effort of set t ing up and m aint aining m ult iple devices.
An device in t his group ( ZLD- based m odels) can m anage ot her APs in t his group
• NWA3160- N
• NWA3550- N
• NWA3560- N
I t can also use legacy device inform at ion hyper- links t o connect t o t he Web Configurat ors of t he
following ZyNOS- based NWA- 3000 series APs:
• NWA- 3160
• NWA- 3163
• NWA- 3500
• NWA- 3550
• NWA- 3166
The following figure illust rat es a CAPWAP wireless net work. The user ( U) configures t he cont roller
AP ( C) , which t hen aut om at ically updat es t he configurat ions of t he m anaged APs ( M 1 ~ M 4 ) .
Figure 2 CAPWAP Net work Exam ple

1.4 Ways to Manage the device

You can use t he following ways t o m anage t he device.
1. Not all of these models were available at the time of writing.
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C
M1 M2 M3 M4
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